Month: February 2017

On February 27, the IRS published Notice 2017-19 which lists the 2017 population figures. These figures are used to determine the Housing Credit program’s tax credit ceiling and the Bond program’s tax-exempt private activity bond caps. This year, each state’s tax credit ceiling is the greater of $2.35 multiplied by the population or $2.71 million […]

On January 31, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published the 2017 poverty guidelines in the Federal Register (82 FR 8831) for the 48 contiguous states, the District of Columbia, Alaska and Hawaii. The figures were made effective January 26. These figures are used by HUD to determine the  Extremely Low-Income (ELI) limits […]